Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 87 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -34 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,194 1,962 2,505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.14% 3.12% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 3.61% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 798 1,124 1,962
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £121,625 £112,500 £112,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -21 1,112 £77,500 +10.71% 796
London +8 639 £85,000 - 257
UK excluding London -73 507 £70,000 +7.69% 654
Work from Home -22 499 £75,000 +11.11% 521
North of England -23 209 £70,000 +14.37% 161
North West +5 126 £70,000 +12.00% 82
South East -92 107 £70,000 +3.70% 184
Yorkshire -31 70 £75,000 +22.54% 58
Midlands -4 67 £72,500 +11.54% 98
South West -49 53 £62,500 - 78
Scotland -49 41 £64,500 -4.44% 42
West Midlands +11 38 £70,000 +7.69% 59
East of England -21 29 £77,500 +29.17% 68
East Midlands -2 27 £76,750 +18.08% 36
North East -11 13 £50,000 -4.76% 21
Wales -9 5 £55,200 +0.36% 19
Northern Ireland -15 2 - - 13
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.09%) Apache
3 24 (2.01%) Confluence
4 23 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.92%) CMS
6 11 (0.92%) JBoss
7 10 (0.84%) Appian
8 9 (0.75%) nginx
8 9 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.59%) IIS
9 7 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.084%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.084%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.084%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.084%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.084%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (1.76%) Maya
2 12 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.75%) Endur
2 9 (0.75%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.25%) Shopify
7 1 (0.084%) Actimize
7 1 (0.084%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.084%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.084%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.084%) Quorum
7 1 (0.084%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.084%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 628 (52.60%) AWS
2 568 (47.57%) Azure
3 194 (16.25%) GCP
4 180 (15.08%) Serverless
5 152 (12.73%) SaaS
6 123 (10.30%) GitHub
7 122 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (5.95%) Amazon S3
10 67 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 62 (5.19%) PaaS
12 56 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 40 (3.35%) IaaS
17 36 (3.02%) Power Platform
18 33 (2.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.84%) HTTP
1 10 (0.84%) Network Security
2 8 (0.67%) AMQP
3 5 (0.42%) Internet
4 4 (0.34%) WAN
5 3 (0.25%) Broadband
5 3 (0.25%) Multicast
6 2 (0.17%) Firewall
6 2 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.17%) LAN
6 2 (0.17%) SNMP
7 1 (0.084%) MQTT
7 1 (0.084%) SSL
7 1 (0.084%) TCAP
7 1 (0.084%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (13.40%) NoSQL
2 159 (13.32%) PostgreSQL
3 149 (12.48%) MongoDB
4 135 (11.31%) SQL Server
5 71 (5.95%) Relational Database
6 54 (4.52%) DynamoDB
7 53 (4.44%) MySQL
8 50 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.35%) Redis
11 27 (2.26%) Big Data
12 26 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.76%) Power BI
15 15 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.26%) Tableau
16 14 (1.17%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.01%) DB2
18 8 (0.67%) BigQuery
19 7 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 156 (13.07%) Git
2 120 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 56 (4.69%) JIRA
4 48 (4.02%) JUnit
5 47 (3.94%) GitLab
6 42 (3.52%) Selenium
7 35 (2.93%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.68%) JMeter
9 30 (2.51%) Mockito
10 25 (2.09%) TeamCity
11 18 (1.51%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.51%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (1.09%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.09%) Maven
14 11 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.84%) Postman
16 9 (0.75%) git-flow
17 8 (0.67%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 355 (29.73%) Finance
2 341 (28.56%) Social Skills
3 128 (10.72%) Banking
3 128 (10.72%) Law
4 107 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.11%) Retail
7 59 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (3.94%) Financial Institution
9 46 (3.85%) Games
10 43 (3.60%) Marketing
11 31 (2.60%) French Language
11 31 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (2.51%) Billing
12 30 (2.51%) Dutch Language
13 28 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.26%) Back Office
15 25 (2.09%) Legal
16 20 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 401 (33.58%) Developer
2 260 (21.78%) Senior
3 239 (20.02%) Architect
4 219 (18.34%) Software Engineer
5 194 (16.25%) Lead
6 119 (9.97%) Solutions Architect
7 105 (8.79%) Java Developer
8 104 (8.71%) .NET Developer
9 79 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 78 (6.53%) Senior Developer
11 74 (6.20%) Java Engineer
12 67 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 60 (5.03%) Lead Developer
14 51 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
14 51 (4.27%) Software Developer
15 47 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 42 (3.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 40 (3.35%) Lead Architect
18 38 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
19 37 (3.10%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (26.13%) .NET
2 268 (22.45%) React
3 247 (20.69%) RESTful
4 211 (17.67%) Spring
5 197 (16.50%) REST
6 188 (15.75%) Kafka
7 184 (15.41%) Spring Boot
8 143 (11.98%) AngularJS
9 132 (11.06%) Node.js
10 126 (10.55%) .NET Core
11 110 (9.21%) HTML
12 77 (6.45%) .NET Framework
13 74 (6.20%) CSS
14 71 (5.95%) ASP.NET
15 69 (5.78%) ASP.NET Web API
16 61 (5.11%) Hibernate
17 60 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
18 58 (4.86%) Entity Framework
19 56 (4.69%) Vue
20 54 (4.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 330 (27.64%) Cloud Native
2 179 (14.99%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (9.97%) Enterprise Software
4 99 (8.29%) Product Ownership
5 56 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (2.93%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 30 (2.51%) Data Structures
10 29 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (2.18%) Onboarding
12 24 (2.01%) AI Agents
12 24 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 23 (1.93%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.84%) Blockchain
15 18 (1.51%) Management Information System
15 18 (1.51%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.42%) Low-Code
17 16 (1.34%) IoT
18 14 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.69%) Linux
2 28 (2.35%) Windows
3 17 (1.42%) Android
4 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.17%) CentOS
7 2 (0.17%) Debian
7 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.084%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (52.01%) Agile
2 547 (45.81%) CI/CD
3 490 (41.04%) DevOps
4 385 (32.24%) Software Engineering
5 262 (21.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 258 (21.61%) Containerisation
7 254 (21.27%) AI
8 241 (20.18%) Mentoring
9 228 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
10 202 (16.92%) Event-Driven
11 200 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 175 (14.66%) Roadmaps
13 170 (14.24%) TDD
14 163 (13.65%) Computer Science
15 151 (12.65%) Test Automation
16 150 (12.56%) Scrum
17 146 (12.23%) SDLC
18 138 (11.56%) Clean Code
18 138 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
19 127 (10.64%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 411 (34.42%) Java
2 316 (26.47%) C#
3 294 (24.62%) Python
4 285 (23.87%) SQL
5 259 (21.69%) JavaScript
6 193 (16.16%) TypeScript
7 55 (4.61%) Go
8 40 (3.35%) Shell Script
9 25 (2.09%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.93%) Kotlin
11 20 (1.68%) C++
11 20 (1.68%) PHP
12 17 (1.42%) C
12 17 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 16 (1.34%) Rust
14 14 (1.17%) Bash
14 14 (1.17%) Ruby
15 9 (0.75%) Scala
16 8 (0.67%) Bicep
17 6 (0.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 197 (16.50%) Degree
2 118 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (7.87%) Security Cleared
4 70 (5.86%) SC Cleared
5 66 (5.53%) AWS Certification
6 58 (4.86%) Master's Degree
7 39 (3.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 37 (3.10%) Azure Certification
9 36 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.75%) PMP
13 7 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.59%) CISSP
14 6 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 3 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.62%) QA
2 26 (2.18%) GDPR
3 23 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.01%) SLA
6 11 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.84%) IFRS
8 9 (0.75%) IFRS 17
8 9 (0.75%) NIST
8 9 (0.75%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.67%) EMIR
9 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.42%) SEPA
11 4 (0.34%) NCSC
12 3 (0.25%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 366 (30.65%) Docker
2 14 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) HDFS
4 2 (0.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.084%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 367 (30.74%) Kubernetes
2 161 (13.48%) Terraform
3 47 (3.94%) Grafana
4 40 (3.35%) Ansible
5 30 (2.51%) Kibana
6 21 (1.76%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.09%) Argo
9 4 (0.34%) Kubeflow
9 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.34%) Puppet
10 3 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.17%) Nagios
12 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.084%) Mesos
12 1 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 192 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.19%) Oracle
3 33 (2.76%) Guidewire
4 27 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.18%) SAP
5 26 (2.18%) Splunk
6 25 (2.09%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.09%) Google
7 18 (1.51%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (1.26%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
10 12 (1.01%) Duck Creek
11 10 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 10 (0.84%) IBM
11 10 (0.84%) Palo Alto
11 10 (0.84%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.75%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.75%) Software AG